Etymology

befriender

B3E1F4R1I1E1N1D2E1R1

Today it means: One who befriends. Full definition →

English befriend ← Middle English frend ← Old English frēond
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
  5. Proto-Germanic*bi
  6. Proto-Germanic*bi-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*bi-
  8. Old Englishbe-
  9. Middle Englishbi-
  10. Englishbe-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*preyH-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*priHós
  13. Proto-Germanic*frijōną
  14. Proto-Germanic*frijōndz
  15. Proto-West Germanic*friund
  16. Old Englishfrēond
  17. Middle Englishfrend
  18. Englishfriend
  19. Englishbefriend
  20. English todaybefriender

From befriend + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.